Swansea surprise Liverpool
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What was the significance of Swansea's victory over Liverpool?
Stunning results for Swansea at the Liberty. Could there be more upset this week in the Carabao Cup? Tuesday night, Bristol City hoping to overturn a 2-1 deficit against Manchester City in the second leg of that semi-final. Goalless between Arsenal and Chelsea, though it certainly wasn't when they met in the league at the Emirates just a few weeks ago. That's on Wednesday night. And you can see all episodes of Sky's new original drama, Britannia, right now on Sky Atlantic, starring David Morrissey. I'll not be a happy man tonight as a Liverpool fan. I don't think any of them will be. One set piece, the difference. Alfie Mawson with it in the first half. A flurry of chances came Liverpool's way at the death.
They hit the post and a wonderful block from Mawson to deny an equaliser in the very last seconds. What an impact for Carlos Cavallal. Five points from his seven games in charge. One goal the difference tonight, but take a look at the expected goals if that floats your boat.
How did Swansea's strategy frustrate Liverpool during the match?
0.16 for Swansea. 2.112 for Liverpool. Tells you they had the chances but didn't convert them. 21 attempts they had, 17 of those came in that second half. Two on target from Swansea, four from Liverpool, who of course hit the post as well. Slavon Bilic, our guest tonight, the former West Ham manager. Was that the perfect execution of how to play against a top six side?
Yeah, I'm glad for Swansea. They played some good football in the first half. They didn't penetrate all right, they had that set-piece, but they were frustrating Liverpool with keeping the ball. And then there's no better thing than to score a goal. It gives you more confidence and everything. Second half was all Liverpool. To be fair, it was totally back to basics from Swansea. But they've done it brilliantly.
What impact did Carlos Carvalhal have on Swansea's performance?
Liverpool created enough chances to get at least the point. Two in the first half, two or three in the second half. That's like you can't create many chances, you know. But Swansea deserved it. And it's great. You know, you have a team that beat...
the best team in the league as you said last week and now it's so frustrating for Liverpool fans isn't it yes it is on the back of last week and it feels that's something that has been said for years Liverpool beat the big teams and then games that you'd expected to to win But, I mean, the way you're going to lose them games is, as I said before, Liverpool are always susceptible to counter-attack in football and set pieces. That's how you lose the games against the lower sides. We've said before the show that it didn't happen before the game. It didn't happen too often, but that's the way you lose. And when Liverpool struggle in them games, it's because of set pieces and counter-attacks.
Brilliant result tonight for Swansea, masterminded by their new manager, Carlos Calvajal, who I'm delighted to say joins us now. Congratulations, Carlos. How did you make this happen tonight?
What were the key moments that led to Swansea's win?
Thank you very much. Maybe I can say that I did an analogy with my players about this game. I said to them that Liverpool is a really top team and they are really, really very strong, but they are a Formula One. And if you put the Formula One in the London, four o'clock in the traffic, the Formula One will not run very fast, absolutely sure. And it's exactly what we must do to play against Liverpool. Put them to play... the way that they don't like it. Another thing very important in this game was that they have a principle of the game that when they lose the ball or if the opponent plays inside the pitch, they are very strong because it's a strong signal to do a very strong pressing. So we did these mistakes when we played in Liverpool.
I saw the game and we did these kind of mistakes. but today my players were ready for that. So all the time we play one, you saw it inside the pitch, my players play all the time one to touch, all the time with support, and after the support they play to the sides to be out of the pressure. When Liverpool come to the pressure in the sides, we try to switch to the other side to put them in these kind of problems.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What was the significance of Swansea's victory over Liverpool?
0:04–1:08
2
How did Swansea's strategy frustrate Liverpool during the match?
1:08–2:00
3
What impact did Carlos Carvalhal have on Swansea's performance?
2:00–3:04
4
What were the key moments that led to Swansea's win?
3:04–5:04
5
How did Liverpool's performance compare to their previous games?
5:04–6:33
6
What were the critical mistakes made by Liverpool in this match?
6:33–7:47
7
How did the pundits analyze the match's turning points?
7:47–8:50
8
What lessons can Liverpool learn from this defeat?
8:50–47:45
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